Problem L16

Math problem L16. Enjoy! Recited by Benjamin Ragheb.

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Problem written, filmed and edited by soce, the elemental wizard. FYI "get up" means the same thing as "get out of bed".

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[WillieBHines]

twice as long to get dressed as get up is 2x + x.

3x is to drive to work

9:01 to 9:58 is 3x so x = 19 minutes.

driving to work takes 3x which is 57 minutes

9:58 + 57 minutes is 10:55

[mathprobs]

Yes, I made it tricky!! Regular human logic would dictate that it takes twice as long to get dressed as to get out of bed, but this person really likes to lay around in bed!

[Cambdoranononononono]

Aw, I worked it out, then realized that Noak explained it about a week ago.

By the way, if you wanted to be annoying, you could interpret "gets up" as already being out of bed. Of course, assuming an 8-hour work day, that would give him 1 hour and 45 minutes daily to eat and sleep.

[mathprobs]

Yes in this case "gets up" means "starts to get out of bed". I will try to be more clear in future problems.

[WillieBHines]

whoops! just read the comments. ah, well.

[mathprobs]

There we go! Excellent! Noah is a male :-)

[jimu57]

yep, I used my bad ear. just saw the post from Noak11. I got what he/she got.

[mathprobs]

Very close, but not quite there yet... Listen to the first five seconds again to make sure you fully understand that part. I purposely made it a little confusing :-)

[jimu57]

ah! he gets up at 9:01..... not 9:00

19 to get out of bed

38 to get dressed

57 to get to work

gets to work at 10:55

[Noak11]

d is the time to get dressed

2d is the time to get out of bed

6d is the time to get to work

9:01-9:58 is 57 minutes, 19 to get dressed and 38 to get out of bed. It will take him 114 minutes to get to work, or 1 hr 54 mins. He will arrive at 11:52.